Nationally, 82 per cent of Help to Buy purchases have been by first-time buyers.

Kevin Wilkins, marketing director of the Bovis Homes Group, said: "Help to Buy equity is proving to be an effective home buying solution for many Cambridgeshire couples and families, many of whom may have been struggling to raise some of the higher deposits previously required by lenders.

"That county-wide picture is reflected at Paragon in Great Kneighton and Sirius View in Cambourne, two of our flagship developments in the area that are attracting a lot of interest."

Andrew Loveday, sales director of Countryside, says 20 per cent of his company's sales at the Great Kneighton development in Trumpington have used Help to Buy.

"It is greatly assisting first-time buyers to make the dream of owning their own home a reality," said Mr Loveday.

"Without Help to Buy, many of them wouldn't have been able to afford it."

Caroline Carter, the sales and marketing director for Taylor Wimpey East Anglia, added: "The Help to Buy scheme has proved hugely popular with both first-time buyers and those looking to move up the property ladder at our developments in Cambourne.

"Since the introduction of the scheme in April 2013, more than 50% of Taylor Wimpey homebuyers at Cambourne have purchased using Help to Buy, and the initiative is making homebuying considerably more affordable for a wide range of people right across the region."

The News has previously reported that Cambridge was one of only four districts across the country where no one used the scheme in its first six months.

However, new figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government up to May 31, 2014 show that 70 properties in Cambridge and 119 in South Cambridgeshire have now been bought using Help to Buy.

Other postcodes where more than 10 homes have been built using Help to Buy are CB23 3; CB24 3; CB24 9 and CB1 3.

The average price for Help to Buy homes across the eastern region was £181,434. Average price figures were not available at district level.

Central Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes and Peterborough are in the top 10 places nationally where Help to Buy has been used.

Communities secretary Eric Pickles said: "The 2008 housing crash devastated our housing industry, locking thousands of aspiring homeowners out of the market for years, and leading to the loss of a quarter of a million construction jobs.

"The government's long-term economic plan, including Help to Buy, has turned that around, leading developers to build more homes and creating thousands of jobs across the country, and around 50,000 households to buy with a fraction of the deposit they would normally require – over 80 per cent of which are first-time buyers."